Captain Phillips manages to trick the pirates into letting some of his crew go by pretending there are more crew members togged up in a secure part of the ship.
Gloria, the Filipina nanny, becomes a maternal figure to Leo and Ellen's daughter, Jackie, which causes emotional complications for her own children back in the Philippines.
Anne, a retired music teacher, suffers a stroke that paralyzes the right side of her body, which challenges her independence and leaves her in a wheelchair.
Ramón forms a deep relationship with Julia, a lawyer suffering from a degenerative disease herself, who helps fight his legal battle for euthanasia, though she doesn't succeed legally.
Captain Wilm Hosenfeld, who helped Szpilman survive, is captured by the Soviets and dies in a prisoner-of-war camp. Szpilman tries to locate him but learns about his fate too late.
The advanced robots recreate David's home and bring back his mother for one day, allowing David to spend a perfect day with her before she falls asleep forever.
Alex, the main character, undergoes the Ludovico Technique, an experimental aversion therapy that conditions him to associate violence with extreme physical illness.
The killer, Isidoro Gómez, was never truly brought to justice by the legal system but was instead captured and imprisoned in a makeshift cell by Ricardo Morales, the husband of the victim.
Dora, Guido's wife, voluntarily boards the train to the concentration camp to be with her husband and son, even though she was not originally rounded up.
The film concludes with Lilja's tragic death, heavily implying it is by suicide, and she is seen ascending to heaven where she is finally reunited with Volodya.